With Election Day around the corner, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their final pitches to voters. Each held a rally in Milwaukee Friday night, offering a split screen to Wisconsin voters. Harris spent Saturday in Georgia and North Carolina, then made a surprise appearance with Maya Rudolph on "Saturday Night Live." She heads to Michigan today and will close out her campaign in Pennsylvania on Monday. The vice president plans to spend election night at her alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Trump plans to swing through North Carolina and Pennsylvania on Monday and will hold his final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
On Tuesday, Harris delivered her closing argument to voters, drawing a crowd of 75,000 people to the Ellipse in D.C. Harris' key message? That American democracy is worth protecting. At an Arizona campaign event Thursday, Trump drew criticism for his violent rhetoric about former Rep. Liz Cheney, who has been the figurehead for the Republicans for Harris movement.
Fallout continues from Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden a week ago, when comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage." Numerous Puerto Rican celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Nicky Jam — the latter having previously endorsed Trump — have come out against the Republican nominee. And after a grammatically ambiguous reaction from President Joe Biden to Hinchcliffe's remark was interpreted as calling Trump supporters "garbage," MAGA world has rallied around the term.
After the Philadelphia district attorney sued Elon Musk and his super PAC to block their daily million-dollar giveaway to registered voters, the billionaire's legal team filed court papers to delay a potential ruling; the suit will continue in state court next week. And Musk's super PAC and other defendants have been accused of violating California labor law in a class action lawsuit filed by former canvassers, Wired reports.
Nationwide, more than 72 million early ballots have been cast. The Supreme Court in the past week rejected Republicans' bid to block provisional ballots in Pennsylvania but allowed Virginia's purge of its voter rolls to proceed ahead of Election Day.
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